Pride Super Early Bird and Early Bird tickets prices have been frozen for the third year running with prices starting from £9.
TICKETS for Pride 2015 will go on sale on Friday, December 19 with Super Early Bird tickets costing £9 and Early Bird tickets £12.50.
Pride 2015 will be celebrating 25 years of Pride in the City and organiser expected it to be the biggest Pride celebrations in the City to date.
2014’s Brighton Pride Festival on Preston Park and the Pride Village Party were hailed a resounding success by Sussex Police, local businesses, resident groups smashing fundraising targets and raising over £110,000.00 in the last two years for The Rainbow Fund, a grant giving organisation that makes grants to LGBT/HIV organisations who provide effective front line services to LGBT people in Brighton and Hove.
£9 community tickets will also be available to parade entries and community groups and children under 12 will be free with accompanying adult.
Other tickets prices will have a small £1 increase to keep up with inflation and operational costs such as power, security and policing costs.
People may volunteer to help Pride for as little as two hours and receive a free ticket. Free tickets are also made available for those who for health reasons are unable to volunteer and can be applied for through the Rainbow Fund.
Weekend tickets will also be available to include entry to Preston park and Village party over two days.
Pride Director Paul Kemp, said: “As a not-for profit Community Interest organisation (CIC), Brighton Pride is committed to a campaigning Pride with purpose, a community Pride with fundraising aims and a Pride that is accessible to all!
“As with the cost of living regrettably the costs of staging the biggest UK Pride festival will go up.
“In last two years we have managed to absorb increased costs for power and policing as well as extra infrastructure and security that helped us deliver a vastly improved entry onto Preston park as well as producing a world class Pride event.
“We are pleased to be able to again freeze early bird tickets due to the continued support of people purchasing Pride festival tickets and also the VIP tickets that help subsidise the discounted tickets.
“£9 community tickets will remain available to our community groups and we’ll continue to offer free tickets for volunteers and people who help us deliver Pride’s community fundraising.”
Brighton Pride Festival ticket money pays for all infrastructure and services across Preston Park to ensure a safe and enjoyable day for everyone, from entertainment and wellbeing to security and production.
Accord to Pride 2014 management accounts Pride spend £30,117 on power £51,190 on sound and lighting, £33,477 on crew costs, £25,685 on toilets and £15,685 on waste management whilst £10,057 was spent on police, £18,324 on St Johns Ambulance and £93,357 on Parade and Park security and stewarding and thats just a fraction of the overall costs of staging a world class Pride event.
Event: Brighton and Hove 25th Anniversary Pride weekend
When: August 1 & 2, 2015
Cost: Tickets will go on sale from Friday, December 19, 2014
Super early Birds £9/ Early Birds £12.50 while stocks last.
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